February 2016

Continuing with bumblebee identification, this week I’ll be writing about the Heath Bumblebee (Bombus jonellus). As the name suggest this bumblebee can be found around upland areas of bog and heath but it is also […]

Last week I wrote about the Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) and I mentioned how it’s very distinctive but how there is also one confusion species, that’s what I’ll be writing about this week. The […]

2015. The hottest year on record. In the West of Ireland summer temperatures finally arrived in September. In Dublin Christmas dog walks around the park went coat free. Conned by the unseasonably balmy winter the […]

The Common Carder Bee (Bombus Pascuorum) is one of our most common bumblebee species in Ireland. The species is quite distinctive and once it is seen, it cannot really be forgotten. It’s also very lucky […]

Hello readers. I am an Englishman that has braved the heat and moved to South Africa for its wealth of biodiversity. Cormac Price recently joined me as a fellow post-graduate student at the University of […]

This article was inspired by a conversation I had recently with friends on the merits and downfalls of social media. Personally, I find social media to be a motivator and an educational tool. This is […]

Following on from my last piece on the Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), it now makes sense to look at one of its most similar species, the White-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lucorum). White-tailed bumblebee Queens are large […]

The ins and outs of the COP21 Climate Agreement and where Ireland stands now? It was an Irishman in the mid-1800s, one of our most successful scientists and educators John Tyndall whom first established that […]

Ireland has 20 native species of bumblebee, but if you’re only starting to learn about these wonderful creatures there isn’t much need to worry about all of them. Some are very rare and others have […]

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